On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 5:49 AM, patrickm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I tried a NFS install and got into a problem. During the installation,
> almost at the end, Anaconda gave me an error message about the fact that it
> couldn't find the "gdm-2.30.4-21.el6.i686" package. I had two choices: retry
> or reboot.
>
> On the (first) installation DVD I couldn't find the package.
> Copying it from the RHEL6 DVD (where it was present) didn't solve the
> problem either (not even when I used createrepo to create new index files).

That is strange. In my test installs of SL alpha3, yum did find gdm on
both i386 and x86_64 platforms. That is, I did a minimal install in
both cases and installed "Desktop" using yum (from the SL site). gdm
was installed just fine.

Akemi